Does this mean we will see 512GB internal phone storage becoming mainstream for low end phones?
By the time is is, it won’t be sufficient. You’ll wish they sold 2TB
Angry Birds is suddenly going to be a 60GB game with an open world, real flying, and large scale multiplayer raid fights.
Nah it’ll be 60gb, but somehow the same game, and lots of cached ads
If the cost per TB is the same and they’re buying tens of PBs anyway, large commercial customers want fewer, bigger drives. That means fewer slots in servers, fewer storage controllers, and possibly even fewer servers.
Onboard storage on cellphones is all about how much they can charge and how many they can sell. 256GB extra for $200 is about 10x higher than the $100/TB flash storage can be gotten for.
Soon, Xiaomi’s Redmi phones are now routinely shipping with 256GB option, so if that’s the base on that line a 512GB default or cheap option won’t be far off.
Is it already mainstream… for the people that can afford it (and are willing to pay for it).
The highest spec of a flagship model, while good to see, is not what I would call mainstream.
True, I was referring to low end phones.
You might want to delete this before you get in trouble for leaking the secret phones you have access to that make you think the S23+ is a low-end phone. Time traveler? CP0 Agent?
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S23+ is not even midrange
for low end phones
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Wooosh
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Samsung is at the Flash Memory Summit in California, showing off its latest wares, announcing breakthrough technologies, and discussing some incredible advances.
Samsung is often the source of the biggest news stories of these events, and it hasn’t disappointed with its announcement of both a 256TB SSDs and unveiling of its PBSSD architecture, designed for peta-byte scale solutions.
And, you guessed it, everything was being framed in the context of being reimagined for “the AI era.” Never worry, as Samsung is here to develop the latest technologies to cope with the “exponential growth of data and its many applications,” attendees were told.
The interface revamp means the new drive is capable of “achieving twice the power efficiency of its predecessor,” says Samsung.
In the quest for maximum data storage within the power and volume limits of a single-server rack, Samsung has created a 256TB SSD.
With such a great capacity in a single device, Samsung and partners like Meta are aiming to make PBSSDs multi-user friendly.
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Crazy to think it was only about fifteen years ago the small Data-storage server reseller I worked for was selling their own in-house server racks - a whole 52U rack filled with Supermicro drive bays to store a petabyte of data was $300k and that was a steal of a deal at the time.
Sure, that system was redundant and this is a single pbSSD, but still crazy to see how fast things are evolving
Nit pick, this is a 256TB SSD, so you’d need four to make a PB of raw space, and probably more than that to allow for RAID and effective space. PBSSD is their name for tech to enable PB scale arrays of such SSDs.
Yeah no doubt, a RAID would be more effective. But still a 256TB SSD is absolutely insane when you think about it, compared to where technology was 10 or 20 years ago.
Good lord, I remember our home PC having a 145gb drive, thereabouts.
I remember when my family’s home PC had a 500 MB hard drive.
And before then at school the old comps had no hard drive, just rom for the OS and a disk drive
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My first hard drive was 20 megabytes. That was considered hugely advanced… you couldn’t even boot from it, needed a boot floppy.
Hell, my first external drive was 120MB. That was to augment the storage of my 80GB internal drive.
QLC is server grade now?
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Sure, if you’re fine with the tradeoffs. This is especially true if you’re storying secondary copies on them for processing purposes.
Apple execs are already rubbing their hands
